Wikimedia Foundation Recruitment 2022
Applications are invited from suitably qualified applicants for the Wikimedia Foundation Recruitment 2022.
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is mostly known for participating in the Wikimedia movement. It owns the internet domain names of many movement projects and hosts sites like Wikipedia.
We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:
Job Title: Staff Systems Architect
As a strong candidate, you have a deep commitment to collective reasoning, strengthening the expert thinking of others, and asking the right questions. You have led and designed socio-technical change at organizations and have experience transitioning monolithic systems to a more modular and distributed approach. You are excited about designing for the emergence and reaching big end goals
You are responsible for:
- Working cross-functionally by collaborating with engineers, product managers, and executives within the Wikimedia Foundation and its partners to model and design an iterative approach to evolve the architecture to deliver on the principles of knowledge as a service and knowledge equity
- Developing and leading internal workshops to gain insight into domains, workflows, and other system needs
- Contributing to implementing plans in conjunction with development teams
- Socializing and communicating architecture designs across Wikimedia stakeholders
- Facilitating and making decisions considering the holistic needs of the Wikimedia socio-technical system
- Working directly on sprint teams as needed to develop a proof of concepts
Skills and Experience:
- Ability to communicate and facilitate across cross-functional groups
- Portfolio of tools for modeling, especially interfaces and communications across system components
- You have experience migrating legacy systems to modern architectures. Especially systems utilizing patterns such as CQRS, loose coupling, microservices, and building an ecosystem of components
- You have worked on event-driven, incremental, and service-oriented architectures
- You have created a variety of architectural artifacts, choosing the right style of delivery for the audience, and are well-versed in framing a problem
- Deeply committed to collaborative work and strengthening ideas together
- Able to stay motivated while working towards a long-term goal and celebrate successes along the way
- Know at least one programming language well, but have knowledge in a variety of languages. You are comfortable with compiled and scripting languages
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent in related work experience. Do not feel you need a degree to apply; we value hands-on experience most of all
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
- Experience using Domain Driven Design
- Experience with open source technology and free culture, and have contributed to open source projects
- Experience working remotely
- You are a contributor to Wikipedia, Wikidata, or other Wikimedia projects
How to Apply
Interested applicants Should CLICK HERE to apply
